cnn has the tape. former president trump gloating about classified documents that he took from the white house and saying clearly that he could have declassified the information, and he did not. trump in his own words, and an update on his aide also charged in the case. >> so it is a curious statement just in moments ago, the man who led the revolt in russia just arriving moments ago, but a handful of rulings just handed down by the supreme court. we are following all of the cases right here on cnn "news central." this just into cnn, trump's aide walt nauta was to be

arraigned on six felony charges today, but we saw his attorney to appear, and he is to answer to conspiracy to obstruct justice, and this is all connected to helping former president trump hide document, and they say they have movement of nauta moving the documents around the mare m-- mar-a-lago home, and he was also discussing the documents. and so, katelyn, this morning, we were waiting for walt nauta to be arraigned, and is that a

surprise? >> it is a twist that makes it a full month following indictment of walt nauta where he is not going to be entering the initial pleading of not guilty, and that is because he could not get a flight to get him into miami in time. the attorney told the judge that he was not there because he spent eight hours on the airport tarmac, and he was not able to get a flight in this morning in time for this arraignment to enter that plea. and so what the judge did was he said that we will have another hearing on july 6th, and that is next thursday the arraignment is set, and nauta does not have to be there in person for it, but because he still does not. stanley wood who has been helping him to help in this

investigation, he didn't have a lawyer, and just like two weeks ago when he first appeared for donald trump's own arraignment, and so a number of hitches are coming up already putting this a full month out from the date of the indictment for walt nauta by coming out formally with that wrinkle to the plea. >> well, he doesn't have an attorney, and he couldn't make it to court this morning. i am certain that you will this and audio that he did not keep declassified documents and he knew that they were not

declassified. so listen a little bit. >> i think that we can probably look -- >> well, we will have to see. >> and declassify them. it says, as president i can declassify them, but as president i could, but as of now i can't. >> paula reid, what are you picking up and hearing? >> well, thanks for the cnn scoop, everyone in the world can hear him still being in possession of secret documents, and what is sticking out is the atmospherics, and this is a casual conversation, and someone can be heard, and this is one of the best pieces of evidence that the prosecutor has and listen to trump in his own words of what he is trying to achieve here.

>> these are bad sick people. >> that is the coup, and when milley was trying to kick you out, but they were trying to do that before you were thrown in. >> well, with milley, let me show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn't it amazing that i have a big pile of papers, and this thing just came up. this was him. they presented me this off of the record, but they pretented me this. this was him. the defense department and him. that was not done by him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. wait a minute. let's see here [ laughter ] >> i just fointd, you know, this

is going to win my case, except this is secret information. look at this. >> in the recent days, he told brett bayer that he had a sgrrnlgt and in the indictment, the former president said that these are the papers, and you can hear him shuffling at the papers, and seeking their affirmation that they agree this that quote hel ps him, and also he knew that he was being recorded, because after he left office, he was in the habit of being recorded, and the other two people in the meeting were working about a book for.

>> it is so stuping when you hear this, because they know exactly what that he ta. and he alleges to have the document that he ledges to have there, and investigators have spoke to mark milley, and sig nif dant and vice president's claim that he has done nothing and it is again so stunning how casual this conservation is when the president was well aware that she was being recorded. >> thank you, paula, for that. >> and now, welcome in cnn political analyst, and save,

sglrnlgt. >> i'm not a lawyer, john, but it is not sounding good to my e ear. >>, but to hear the shuffling of papers and to hear donald trump speaking in the cavalier manner, and you know, to think that in terms of the fallout, i think that you to look and maybe it is one of the most damping piece ps of paper that prosecutors have, and politically in this way that and they say no. and you can see politic at play here, and a significant portion

of the base rallying around here, and that won't change because of this aud yep. a and as you are looking at the full slate of candidates, why not say, mike pence has listened to this. >> and maybe nikki haley will talk about it a little bit, because she thauz has the talked about the sglurnlgt. >> and maybe he is going to talk about how reckless he was with these documents, and hey, look at how lk and we know that he is

giving the president a lis of and it is the ob siquinous of te people with him laughing out loud, and it sort of changes the wall paper in a way, and i think that some of the other republican candidates may dip their toes a little bit more about the way a former president of the united states talked about top secret, classified information to people who had absolutely no right to hear it. >> yeah, and it is that wall paper, where things get the most and it is not just people out

there on the campaign trail, but it is democrats and republicans and so fon, and we don't expect donald trump to go to the first and how do they deal with the people not there? >> well, if donald trump is not on the debate page with the first debate in usa bernlgt of those who are reading the transcript without the trump antics on the stage, and so that could be a real golden opportunity in the poling, is a opening, that we have not seen any kand and sflarnlt and.

>> and what trump did in this document kag. >> and what they want them to do. >> the voters, i woobt them to be taking to my life gloria, ron desantis and to a certain extent, they are treating it as a two person race, and challenging for ron di sat tis

sgroirnlgt and thising to just add to it. >> trump said that he would have been handling documents dock yums, e led sfloern and you have to define yourself, and you have to define the differences with that frm and not as directly as he needs to, because he is way behind in the polls, and he needs to get people a reason that and that is what this is about right now, and not only accepting him, because frontrunner by double digits. >> gloria and david, we are going to stop this right now, because it is a supreme court dission as has to with and let's

go laura coates. laura coates is in washington. why don't you tell me what this case broadly speaking is all part >> lfrt proand how they are going to be per facilitated service dog and the gerrymanders vrnl and what the legislature wants to do with reand it was not too far ago, and said his enwe kis and twe puck umgt and

the inability for a court or other entity to look at what is being done and valid if it is ep lar le and more grefrp and it gives person the one vote standard and can there be another and can kit push the north snoecht that not long enough the kours said that there there no and under the voting rights act to 1965 to have the access to the polls, and one per

voting to tand you want to have some level of court. you for some level of's pengt spengt of snimt and what the ak xhouchlt and what we are combing through it to give the full thed and who are preparing 496 days away from the 2024 presidential election, and the manner which we have election, and how they are carried out, and who can serve as a check and balance. this is coming, john, the heels of more than one supreme court

where the supreme court has surprised many voting rights activists, and the voting act of 19635. '65 had been gutted years ago, and that is the formula to use to decide which jurisdictions in the past had a history of discrimination, and ought to have a preclearance from the government on these ush issues, and now we have here ri as this well thrts. and ne d now, we are looking at what? >> we are looking at the theory that was pushed by president trump to overturn the 2020 election results around and the supreme court is rejecting that

broad interpretation of the theory. so to take you back. this is a dispute involving election maps in north carolina. the north carolina state and saying, look, per the constitution, it is really the state sledge sgrournlgt and the state court should have no stay, and there is a clause that says the state sledge chur should prehad already and it was a 6-3 decision written by supreme

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helt floem and just so people know it was a 6-3 position with justist ront, justice bafr t and now i want to bring back david chalian who was there when the news broke, and look, this happens so much more when in 2020, there was an effort to basically overwhelmed this sledge flooefrnlt and this company split to the part san ends of the room here. this decision did not gill power

et sgroermt and how much water pressure was applied to those floemts and learn if sflop and sfloernl sgrournlt sgroirnlt and you are right, this was at the core of the efforts to overturn the election. remember, we talked a lot apt ent and remember that donald trump was so age ri with the vice president about it, that he riled up the crowd to cheer "hang mike pence i "on the taps of the capital of january 6th.

it was ant michael pence not following through be frau and being told to trump byman naenlt sgenlt and the state legislatures do not have a supreme and total authority, and it is a reminder of the how the ek chs an ball lans work. and yes, as we haefr from the and the gerrymanders is okay from the federal sfwraurnlgt and how it is relating to the ledge slay chufr, and that it is not

unnotered authority hire and then future attempts about hthe norms. >> when you are going through the decision, you don't even know, but the way you put it, david, it brings it home as to the true dissent of this decision. >> and one more thing, you nose tissed all six months that justin with and just like the north carolina supreme court, but remember his blermt and not

only that, but his three disscenting voices, thomas, alito and gor sich. thomas says that he would have dismissed case because of the light of the supreme court case, and? mootness, and what are they saying here? >> he is saying that we should not have considered this, because of the time that the legal challenge is brought to the map, the ledgislature is flipped, and it is an off ramp. >> and we don't have to deal with it. >> right. but the majority, which included both liberals and conservatives said, we will take on the issue, and if the outcome had been opposite, it would have been cataclysmic, and it would have changed everything about the way we vote. the constitution says it is up to legislatures to determine the

time mapper of voting, and it does not say courts. this started as a regime and law school and academic theory, and the state legislature can't do anything about it. and fit had been the ruling here, it would have thrown us into chaos, and important to note that this is the second time in two weeks that we have seen two conservative justice, kavanaugh and barrett and dh is showing that the guardrails are there. it is the status quo, because the decision could have destroyed the guardrails, and

maybe it is not surprising to hear the state and this is 56-3 opinion, and not close, so what does this tell us about the court, and how strongly they feel about keeping this as a status quo? >> well, it sounds like a victory in terms of this sglarnlgt and obviously, they ate 8 to 1, but some justices who will not want to reses it and they will know that they have to and this all dealing with the elections clause of the constitution. it says time, places, and

manners of holding representatives will be described by the state thereof. based on the le that meant, courts, governors, election and administration, and they kood and what checks and balances should be provided. this absolutely provides what shone and remember when i would thot have snut nu and snonlt and the supreme court has and they

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we see more opinions like this, it mayp hee the rinl especially, it seems that they needed to have a little tension with this decision. and now, jessica snyder outside of the court, and take us inside of this decision, you here from from jernlgt and though it is important what the jus riss are

looking another the sflooernt and the clause that describes time, place, and manner whether it is to and so they are saying to recognize the constitutional ti of the legislative aks. so, why the nafb sfla and the girls exact na and through the twhoem sghol and they have

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all right. a major ruling from the supreme court just a few minutes ago. the case was "moore versus

harper" and specifically dealt with north carolina and some redistricting issues, but the bigger overarching issue had to do with what is known as the independent state legislature theory. and the idea that the state legislatures were partisan one way or another, and they cannot operate unchecked by state checks. the states do have a role within the elections. and it was a 6-3 ruling with the chief justice john roberts writing the ruling. >> we will go over to joan b biscupic when the case was

written. >> yes, we wondered what would happen, because there was a new law written that off ramped the real case. is there were a number of case. and the chief justice has the opinion to announce, and we were like, he has the opinion to announce in this, and we thought that he was going to be moon, and resch, and we talked about why we desite to eclipse in north carolina, and he said, if you want to know why we did that, go to the prngs because the way i spelled it out is not going to lend it out to oral presentation. and so he gets a laugh in the middle of the whole thing, but then he gets to the meat of it,

from this conservative court to have enough members open to the theorys from tand and so all of the temperatures and the state constitutions have a role to make sure that what they are doing comports with the state laws and it does not violate the federal constitution. he stressed a number of long-standing supreme court precedent going back to marbury v med san, and 23% and just as

state judge have the important review party, and it is the kav that has not been tested. there are checks on what legislators were as and twhab courts can do reviewing legislative actions, and that might come down the road, but the very important ruling today which is going to affect the upcoming elections in 2024 is that state courts, state constitutions will be an important check on state that sxloub >> or sfim and it is a part of

the gerrymandering that had been originally deemed unfair to the voters and violated the north carolina state constitution, and what the legislature had done when they came up to the supreme court, they said, there is no room to do that and with colleagues to the left with rapt attention as were all of us in the courtroom, because it was an important deal. one of the justices who joined hip, brett kav knew wrote and

what exactly state sfro first y'all, so ki leave the argument to our bis and joan, thank you so much for that analysis. i want to nknow and suppressing voters of color, and unfair counting votes and so many things in place, but this is about the checks and balances. do you see this as just reminding people that will have checks and ball banss in this country that cannot be matd be that and i mean, we have 50

different state constitutions which create different relationships between the texas lay check chur and family and it is go sfrob and in some respect, it is a pret sfre reafterwran and in this particular kaes, steve. we have something new coming in right now sfa. >> and so this is a statement

from former president barack obama. they rejected fringe upper energy and so they gave this ruling a resounding rejection of the far right theory that has been peddled by the election deniers and definers and making sur that bloirng and what they were nervous about if they had court the roultd otherwise to act in plm any more or flow sfwloernlg floyd slows the sflom

>> and one of the election deniers is justice thomas' wife, and he has descented as one of the three descenters, and that is fascinating, and one of the things that people will be honing in on it. >> yes, dhe and they will have much more coming up on this and developing stories, and much more coming up on cnn "news central" next.

all right. moments ago a notable claim of the whereabouts of the man who led the revolt in russia. and now, there are claims that prigozhin has arrived there. but we have not seen him. and he has surrounded himself with military units, and they are meant sflomt and now w his

whereabouts in belarus maybe according to prigozhin to arrive in the neighboring country which is an ally of the kremlin of course, which is a sort of the push toward moscow and so he was last seen leaving the russian city boning up and so it is a pretty happy happening when things happen in belarus. and lev shen sgloernlgt and back

here in moscow, vladimir putin is furious about the speech last night about the military uprising against him. and speaking to russian perg nell del l sgloernlgs >> and the would have intre --

and you have seen them stop the civil war. >> this is the kremlin trying to portray the resistance or the uprising instead of a sign of weakness as a sign of national community. >> matthew chance, thank you for keeping us posted. kate? >> we have that and a lot of other news coming in this morning, including brat sfloirnlgt we will break that down, and plus the cnn exclusive audiotapes of former president s discussing classified information. yoyou will hear that next. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ li. i broughght in ensure max protein with 30g of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks.

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